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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?
(a) A coca-cola
(b) A pork pie
(c) Tobacco
(d) A guitar
2. What does Charles do during breakfast?
(a) Vomits
(b) Prays
(c) Cries
(d) Falls asleep
3. How do the character know the grave has been disturbed?
(a) There are footprints
(b) The coffin is lying empty next to the grave
(c) There are fresh cigarette butts on the ground
(d) The flowers have been disturbed
4. Who does Charles meet for the first time when he climbs out of the water?
(a) His father
(b) Aleck Sander
(c) Lucas Beachamp
(d) Gavin Stevens
5. What does Lucas lay on the bare cots?
(a) Tarpaulin
(b) Books
(c) Newspaper
(d) His jacket
6. How are they going to transport the body back to the truck?
(a) They don't need the body only the bullet
(b) They will carry it
(c) Using Charles' horse
(d) Drag it along with rope
7. Who does Lucas order to pick the money up from the floor?
(a) Mr Edmonds
(b) Molly
(c) Charles
(d) The two black boys
8. Why does Charles think Lucas does not talk to him the second time they meet in town?
(a) He is ignorant
(b) His wife has just died
(c) He does not like him
(d) He no longer owes him
9. What does the constable chain Lucas to?
(a) A bed post
(b) A car handle
(c) The murder victim
(d) A railing
10. Why are the black prisoners afraid to make a noise?
(a) The sheriff is asleep
(b) They will not get fed
(c) They may by mistaken for Lucas
(d) Too much noise will set off a time bomb
11. What make of gun does Lucas own?
(a) A Heckler and Koch
(b) A Colt .41
(c) A Remington
(d) Adams
12. What county is Montgomery from?
(a) Crossman county
(b) Jefferson county
(c) Neshoba county
(d) Tate county
13. Why must they hide the truck when they reach the cemetery?
(a) It is an expensive truck
(b) The truck is stolen
(c) The sheriff is guarding the grave
(d) In case the Gowries are near by
14. What does Lucas want Charles to do?
(a) Help him escape
(b) Dig up Gowrie's body
(c) Kill him
(d) Shoot the sheriff
15. How old was Charles when he first met Lucas?
(a) Fifteen
(b) Twelve
(c) Eleven
(d) Ten
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Uncle Gavin and the Sheriff want the boys to do?
2. What does Charles do when they hear the mule?
3. Who does the sheriff phone to organize an exhumation order?
4. What day do they bury the murdered man?
5. How did Lucas once react to an insult from a white man?
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